Delivery of Agile, DevOps, and Test Automation to FTSE 100 and top 6 UK Energy Company

• We worked closely with the IT executives and their direct reports to formulate a 12-month strategy that would guide the company to more efficient and effective ways to deliver IT
• Initially, the primary goal was the design of a program to implement a bimodal way of working to avoid disruption to ongoing waterfall projects and critical operations
• The key objectives were to implement IT best practice for Cobit 5 governance, Lean 6 sigma practices, Scaled Agile Framework, ITIL, and Kanban integration with DevOps capability
• All tailored towards the corporate federation of business functions to allow economy of scale with ownership and focus on independent functions and business requirements

Implementation of Agile best practices for a global leader in the insurance industry

• Using an advanced communication strategy to fundamentally re-orientate the company culture and help IT deliveries embrace a fail-fast attitude
• Implementing Agile practices using the recognised waterfall methodologies and rebuilding Portfolio, Program and Project approaches, reporting and tracking
• Designing new KPIs to focus deliveries towards customer value and re-orienting the SAAS delivery approach to allow layers of capability to aggregate and be managed through configurations
• Aligning best of breed IT to the COOs target operating model, CISOs security policy, and CTOs technology strategy

Delivery of the core of the largest UK deployment of Critical National Infrastructure

• Working with government licensed agencies and delivery partners to assure high-quality service integration deployment and testing on a complex legal landscape
• Implementing a highly complex security infrastructure (multiple layers of Diffie Helman key exchange with originator key signatures)
• Publicly facing and high profile smart meter network and application testing to ensure service in a highly sensitive political environment
• Demonstrating traceability and audit-ability of requirements across government legislation, interface definitions, security framework, operational specifications, data security requirements, the integrity of transient data and technical functions
• Data analytics platform implementation to analyse energy usage patterns and compare operational problem/incident records and identify root causes